acme

[ ak-mee ]

noun

1. the highest point; summit; peak:

   The empire was at the acme of its power.

acme

/ ˈækmɪ /

noun

1. the culminating point, as of achievement or excellence; summit; peak

Other Words From

• ac·mic [ak, -mik], ac·mat·ic [ak-, mat, -ik], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of acme¹

First recorded in 1560–70, from Greek akmḗ “point, highest point, extremity”

Word History and Origins

Origin of acme¹

C16: from Greek akmē

Example Sentences

Chess may seem like the acme of human thought, but it’s not.

From MIT Technology Review

The team behind Indochine and Acme is also opening Tijuana Picnic in the LES sometime this month.

From The Daily Beast

He is the acme of political correctness (notwithstanding the odd drone directed at “AfPak”).

From The Daily Beast

I did comedy sketches of her at ACME, but she was known as ‘The Other Mrs. Gabor’ then.

From The Daily Beast

But Sanjay seems today like an adumbration, rather than the acme, of authoritarian possibilities in India.

From The Daily Beast

ACME has a mousetrap division that is not performing very well.

From The Daily Beast

Dr. Coleridge "considered it to be a contagious nervous disease, the acme or intensest form of which is catalepsy."

From Project Gutenberg

There is in art an acme of perfection, as there10 is in Nature one of goodness and completeness.

From Project Gutenberg

For, there lay the acme of his cleverness; in the extraction of money from the unlucky people who came to demand it.

From Project Gutenberg

Ball had been to school before, and of this school he often bragged as the acme of desirability and wickedness.

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But the point, the acme of my distresses, consisted in the awful uncertainty of our final fate.

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